Big Fish Audio Atomizer Multi-Format

Been making music since the early 90's as a hobbyist, recently went semi-pro. Mostly of the various electronic genres.

Use this with Kontakt and Battery, primarily. MOnitored through a pair of Event powered speakers from a MOTU828.

This is not your father's sampling CD. There is really nothing to compare this to. It's all drum and percussion loops, but they're just so...weird. IDM? Maybe, except there's a hwole section of latin rhythms. Dance? Kinda, except they're lo-fi and twitchy. Hip-hop? Sort of, if you're a member of the borg collective.

Truly unusual stuff. If you're looking for breaks or 4-on-the-floor dance beats, this is not it. However, if you want to add atmospheric electronic percussion, need some really strange-yet-rhythmic loops, or are just a big fan of Atom Heart/Uwe Schmidt, this is a good CD to have.

It's broken down into several sections, incluidng "8-bit-boogie" which is all digitally mangled drum loops. And by "mangled" I don't just mean "heavily compressed and distorted." We're talking bitcrushed, glitched, downsampled, resequenced, granularized, timestretched, and so forth." Strange reverbs float in and out, things go from hi-fi to lo-fi and back in the course of a single hit...it's very meticulous. There's a slo-mo selection of downtempo beats that are atmospheric, electonic, glitchy and yet engaging. "Supertropical" is an entire section of latin dance beats - salsa, meregue, cumbia, etc - generated from electronic noises. There's a section with odd time signatures and quantizations, a section with a specific "groove" applied to it, and a section of hip-hop beats that have been digitally altered.

There's a lot here, basically.

It's hard to rate this one, as it's for a particular niche. Ive found that many of the loops work quite well in concert with other sounds, as a layer in a complex percussion arrangement rather than on their own. They would stand alone, but only if you're making glitch techno and want to risk sounding like an Atom Heart side project.

It certainly gives a person ideas and raw material for a "different" sound, though.